Quotes By Barry Gibb

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I never really did any disco dancing.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.